The Minister of Public Works explained that it will be completed in the first quarter of this year. Deputies have pointed out that there is no environmental impact study of the hospital.
Deputies of the Special Commission to investigate the systematic irregular actions of the Executive Body, affecting the treatment, prevention and combat of the pandemic, questioned the Ministers of Public Works, Romeu Rodríguez; and Health, Francisco Alabi, for the delay in the delivery of phase 3 of the El Salvador hospital.
“There are statements, there are recorded audios where his person (Minister Rodríguez) states that phase 3 of the El Salvador hospital was going to be ready and was going to start working on July 31, five and a half months have passed since since then, what happened? “, questioned the deputy Emilio Corea, of ARENA, and chairman of the commission.
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The head of the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) evaded the question about the delay, in addition to saying that lawmakers have not given money to repair the hospital network or to carry out activities for the pandemic.
Korea also recalled that President Nayib Bukele has given away houses saying they were bought with the savings from El Salvador Hospital, “a savings from a hospital that is not finished,” he noted.
Minister Rodríguez replied that the first two phases of the hospital have already been completed, and that phase 3 will be a permanent structure to be able to provide care, and that they have already entered the closure stage (temporary barriers that are being collapsed). loquen around the play), “we hope to conclude it in the first quarter of this year as I have mentioned on several occasions,” the MOP headline argued.
Deputy Elizabeth Gómez recalled that the Assembly approved $ 15 million for the Government for El Salvador Hospital, in addition to recently giving it $ 60 million for operation.
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“Between March and April we approved several budgets for you (government), so that you have no money, then how do you explain everything they have done,” said MPF Gomez MP Elizabeth Gomez.
He added that the minister did not say if there is an environmental impact study for the construction of the building in the annex of the El Salvador hospital, which at the beginning of construction was said to be provisional and then they changed the speech to say it would be permanent.
“We requested all the necessary permits to be able to carry out the infrastructure. I already replied, we did all the relevant legal processes, we did it the right way,” Rodriguez said.
Health Minister Francisco Alabi said when questioned by phase 3 of the hospital, he stated that there are already two phases that are working.
“Phase 3 of the hospital already this answer has been given by the minister (of the MOP) is formulating, is completing this infrastructure that is being carried out, that more depth of it, and explain to him that in at the moment we already have the necessary capacity for the first and second phases, “said Alabi.